In reporting the story that ran Sunday about NCCU's unauthorized satellite campus at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta, I tried several times to contact James Ammons, NCCU's former chancellor who is now president at Florida A & M University in Tallahassee.
Ammons never called or returned my emails requesting comment. He did comment, briefly, to a higher education trade publication called Inside Higher Ed. He didn't say much, but here's a link to the story that publication wrote on the New Birth issue.
And here are Ammons' comments.
"James H. Ammons, who was chancellor when the program was set up, recently left to become president of Florida A&M University. Via e-mail, Ammons said that while he knows that anything that happened administratively while he was chancellor was 'my responsibility,' he 'cannot recall all of the details regarding that particular program because I don’t get involved in the day-to-day operations of academic programs,' leaving such matters to the provost and faculty."
